Chromium in Drinking Water: Sources, Metabolism, and Cancer Risks Anatoly Zhitkovich*
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1 pubs.acs.org/crt Chromium in Drinking Water: Sources, Metabolism, and Cancer Risks Anatoly Zhitkovich* Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Brown University, 70 Ship Street, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, United States ABSTRACT: Drinking water supplies in many geographic areas contain chromium in the +3 and +6 oxidation states. Public health concerns are centered on the presence of hexavalent Cr that is classified as a known human carcinogen via inhalation. Cr(VI) has high environmental mobility and can originate from anthropogenic and natural sources. Acidic environments with high organic content promote the reduction of Cr(VI) to nontoxic Cr(III). The opposite process of Cr(VI) formation from Cr(III) also occurs, particularly in the presence of common minerals containing Mn(IV) oxides. Limited epidemiological evidence for Cr(VI) ingestion is suggestive of elevated risks for stomach cancers. Exposure of animals to Cr(VI) in drinking water induced tumors in the alimentary tract, with linear and supralinear responses in the mouse small intestine. Chromate, the predominant form of Cr(VI) at neutral ph, is taken up by all cells through sulfate channels and is activated nonenzymatically by ubiquitously present ascorbate and small thiols. The most abundant form of DNA damage induced by Cr(VI) is Cr-DNA adducts, which cause mutations and chromosomal breaks. Emerging evidence points to two-way interactions between DNA damage and epigenetic changes that collectively determine the spectrum of genomic rearrangements and profiles of gene expression in tumors. Extensive formation of DNA adducts, clear positivity in genotoxicity assays with high predictive values for carcinogenicity, the shape of tumor dose responses in mice, and a biological signature of mutagenic carcinogens (multispecies, multisite, and trans-sex tumorigenic potency) strongly support the importance of the DNA-reactive mutagenic mechanisms in carcinogenic effects of Cr(VI). Bioavailability results and kinetic considerations suggest that 10 20% of ingested low-dose Cr(VI) escapes human gastric inactivation. The directly mutagenic mode of action and the incompleteness of gastric detoxification argue against a threshold in lowdose extrapolation of cancer risk for ingested Cr(VI). CONTENTS 1. Environmental Contamination with Chromium Main Aqueous Forms of Cr(VI) AND Cr(III) Chromium Chromium Cellular Metabolism and DNA Damage by Cr(VI) Cellular Metabolism Cr-DNA Damage Mutagenicity of Cr-DNA Adducts Chromosomal Breakage by Cr-DNA Adducts Carcinogenicity of Cr(VI) via Drinking Water Epidemiological Studies Animal Studies Is Cytotoxicity-Driven Proliferation Involved in Mouse Intestinal Carcinogenesis?? Cocarcinogenicity of Cr(VI) Critical Factors for Low-Dose Extrapolation Mutagenic Mechanism in Cr(VI) Carcinogenesis Mutagenicity of Cr(VI) DNA-Reactive Mechanism in Cr(VI) Mutagenesis and Clastogenesis Genotoxic vs Epigenetic Mechanisms Is Human Gastric Detoxification of Low Cr(VI) Doses Complete?? Conclusions 1625 Author Information 1625 Abbreviations 1625 References ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINATION WITH CHROMIUM Three thermodynamically stable Cr forms, Cr(0), Cr(III), and Cr(VI), are used commercially and are present in the environment. Cr(0) is found almost exclusively in its metallic form, most commonly as a component of iron-based alloys such as stainless steel. Only Cr(VI), but not Cr(0) or Cr(III), has been shown to cause cancers in laboratory animals and occupationally exposed workers. 1 3 Environmental pollution with various forms of Cr results from its numerous uses in the chemical industry, production of dyes, wood preservation, leather tanning, chrome plating, manufacturing of various alloys, and many other applications and products. 1,2 Stainless steel contains up to 20% Cr by weight and is the highest volume product containing this metal. The magnitude of Cr utilization is also evident from the estimated occupational exposure by more than 500,000 workers in the U.S. alone. 3 Incineration and emissions from cars create ambient pollution with small Cr(VI)- and Cr(III)-containing particles, which leads to low-level inhalation exposures by large segments of the general population and increases Cr levels in surface waters. The most Received: June 20, 2011 Published: July 18, 2011 r 2011 American Chemical Society 1617 dx.doi.org/ /tx200251t Chem. Res. Toxicol. 2011, 24,
2 Figure 1. Origin and interconversion of different forms of Cr in water. Route 1 is the most important overall source of Cr(VI), whereas route 2 describes the most important natural process of Cr(VI) formation. serious cases of anthropogenic contamination of drinking water in the U.S. came from the discharges of toxic Cr(VI) by cooling towers. 4 Other large-scale environmental pollution with Cr(VI) involved improper disposal of millions of tons of incompletely processed chromite ore. 5 Hundreds of the largest toxic waste sites in the U.S. known as Superfund sites contain Cr as a major contaminant. 2 The presence of Cr(VI) in drinking water can also result from the oxidation of naturally occurring Cr(III) by Mn(III/IV) oxides in birnessite, 6 a common mineral that coats weathered grains and fractures in Cr-rich ultramafic rocks and serpentinites that are enriched with chromite [FeCr(III) 2 O 4 ]. In addition to birnessite, the presence of two other Mn(IV) oxidecontaining minerals, asbolane and lithiophorite, has also been associated with the formation of Cr(VI) from natural Cr(III). 7 Examination of four minerals made of Mn oxides (birnessite, cryptomelane, todorokite, and hausmannite) showed that birnessite had the highest ability to oxidize Cr(III) under laboratory conditions. 8 Cr(0)-containing products are generally highly resistant to corrosion; however, slow oxidation of Cr-containing alloys can result in the limited release of soluble Cr(III) into soil and water. Cr(VI) is the most mobile form of chromium in the environment. Mobility of Cr(III) strongly depends on the acidity and Cr(III)-binding properties of soluble and insoluble components at the contamination sites. Cr(VI) and Cr(III) have dramatically different toxicological properties, 1,2 and all public health concerns are centered on the presence of toxic hexavalent Cr in drinking water. In 1991, the US-EPA set the current standard for Cr in drinking water (maximum contaminant level) at 100 μg/l, 9 which does not distinguish between the presence of toxic Cr(VI) and nontoxic Cr(III). Considering long-standing public concerns about Cr(VI), it is unclear why there are no requirements for specific monitoring of Cr(VI) levels. The analytical technologies for Cr speciation and detection were not very sensitive until the mid-1980s, and reliable measurements of Cr(VI) at environmental levels typically required preconcentration steps, which were more suitable for specialized academic laboratories than for routine monitoring. However, analytical methodologies for Cr(VI) underwent dramatic improvements a long time ago. The EPA s own Method for the detection of hexavalent Cr was developed approximately 20 years ago and affords a reliable monitoring of Cr(VI) at 1 μg/l. This methodology is not expensive and is based on a routine HPLC column separation of chromate anion followed by a colorimetric detection with diphenylcarbazide. Essentially all analytical laboratories are equipped with HPLC and should be able to perform this type of Cr(VI) measurements at relatively low cost. Recent improvements of chromatographic and postcolumn derivatization conditions in the EPA s Method allow the detection of Cr(VI) in drinking water at 3 ng/l (Application Update 179 from Dionex, Inc.). This sensitivity is more than sufficient to meet the most stringent regulations for Cr(VI), including those associated with the Public Health Goal of 20 ng/l in California. For many samples with very low Cr levels, Cr(VI) analyses by the modified Method could be even more sensitive than measurements of total Cr. Although the presence of Cr(VI) near municipal water reservoirs is the obvious reason for its monitoring in drinking water supplies, environmental contamination with Cr(III) can also generate Cr(VI) through oxidation reactions with water chlorination products, 10 Ca and Mn oxides, 11,12 and photoxidation. 13 Overall, industrial activities associated with the direct release of Cr(VI) into the soil and water is the most important source of Cr(VI) contamination in drinking water (Figure 1). 2. MAIN AQUEOUS FORMS OF Cr(VI) AND Cr(III) 2.1. Chromium-3 Cr(III) forms hexacoordinate complexes with the octahedral arrangement of ligands. Hexaaquachromium- (III) [Cr(H 2 O) 6 3+ ] is the main Cr species in solutions of inorganic Cr(III) salts under strongly acidic ph. At ph 4 and higher, Cr(III)-bound H 2 O molecules undergo hydrolysis, which leads to the formation of soluble and insoluble oligomeric and polymeric products (Figure 2A). The reactions of hydrolysis and polymerization are accelerated by increasing ph >5, and adjustment of solutions to neutral ph results in a rapid precipitation of multinuclear Cr(III) hydroxides. In addition to ph, the generation of polymeric products is influenced by the Cr concentrations, composition, and age of the solutions. Surface waters commonly contain a mixture of soluble monomeric and oligomeric Cr(III) products. 14,15 Mild acidity and the absence of significant amounts of organics in drinking water supplies limit the presence of dissolved Cr(III) due to its poor solubility. In contrast to its aqua complexes, Cr(III) compounds with small organic molecules such as organic acids, biological buffers, amino acids, and others are soluble and remain monomeric for a long time. 16 Thus, the description of Cr(III) insolubility at neutral ph is only correct for solutions lacking ligands that compete with H 2 O. Formation of stable Cr(III) complexes with small organic molecules at the primary source of emission or contamination sites can increase their environmental mobility and maintain the solubility of Cr(III) even at neutral ph. Binding of Cr(III) by Feoxyhydroxides and immobilized organic matter in the soil or sediments diminishes its soluble pool. Interactions between Cr(III) with components of environmental media involve continuous cycles of adsorption/desorption and precipitation/dissolution, which control the extent of its environmental mobility. Animal and epidemiological studies have consistently found inorganic Cr(III) to be nontoxic and noncarcinogenic, 1,2 which has also been confirmed for the dietary supplement chromium picolinate. 17 The absence of toxic effects for Cr(III) complexes results from their poor ability to enter cells, lack of intracellular accumulation, and high stability of coordinated multidentate ligands, which prevents binding to cellular macromolecules. 16 Systemic absorption of Cr(III) taken by human volunteers in the form of dissolved inorganic salts is measurable but usually less than 0.5%. 2,18 No elevation in urinary excretion of Cr(III) was detected from the ingestion of insoluble Cr 2 O 3, 19 which raises the question as to why the use of inorganic salts resulted in Cr(III) absorption at all considering the formation of oligomeric products after the dissolution of these compounds in water dx.doi.org/ /tx200251t Chem. Res. Toxicol. 2011, 24,
3 Figure 2. Aqueous species of Cr(III) and Cr(VI). (A) Hydrolysis and polymerization of hexaaquachromium(iii). Transition ph values are approximate. (B) Structures of sulfate, chromate, and dichromate. A plausible explanation for these results lies in highly acidic conditions of the human gastric environment (ph 1 3), 20 which is expected to promote dissociation of Cr(III) oligomers. Low ph also strongly enhances the exchange of H 2 O for organic ligands in the Cr(III) coordination sphere, 21 allowing the formation of new Cr(III) complexes that could remain soluble upon reaching neutral ph of the small intestine, where the absorption of metal ions takes place. A short stomach residency time for pure water and other simple liquids, however, is expected to limit the extent of ligand exchange reactions Chromium-6. Chromate anion (CrO 4 2 ) is the predominant form of Cr(VI) in dilute solutions at neutral ph. Chromate exists in equilibrium with its protonated form HCrO 4 in approximately 3:1 ratio at these conditions. 22 HCrO 4 becomes the most prevalent species of Cr(VI) at ph < 6. Concentrated solutions of Cr(VI) at highly acidic ph contain the dichromate anion Cr 2 O 7 2 (Figure 2B). At levels below the current federal standard of 100 μg/l, the presence of dichromate in drinking water should be minimal. Both chromate and dichromate have tetrahedral arrangements of coordinated oxygen groups. Cr(VI) is a potent oxidant at highly acidic ph when any organic molecule with oxidizable groups can promote its reduction to Cr(III). Increasing ph enhances the stability of Cr(VI), particularly at near neutral and alkaline ph. The strong ph effect on Cr(VI) reduction is demonstrated by the findings that human gastric juice was capable of reducing approximately 70% of Cr(VI) after a 30-min incubation at ph 1.4 but was completely ineffective at ph The presence of Fe 2+ is important for abiotic reduction of Cr(VI) under anaerobic conditions in soil and underground water. Uptake and reduction by microorganisms is another detoxification process for Cr(VI), although it is limited by the ability of resistant bacteria striving in contaminated water to rapidly extrude Cr(VI). 23 Overall, Cr(VI) is a persistent contaminant in many water sources due to their low organic content and lack of sufficient acidity to catalyze reduction to Cr(III). Figure 3. Reduction of Cr(VI) and its genotoxic impact. Extracellular reduction is a detoxification process, generating poorly cell-permeable Cr(III). In contrast, cellular Cr(VI) reduction is the activation process, producing redox-active intermediates Cr(V/IV) and stable Cr(III) forming mutagenic Cr-DNA adducts. Asc is the dominant reducer of Cr(VI) in cells in vivo, whereas GSH is the most prominent reducer in cultured cells due to their Asc-deficiency. 3. CELLULAR METABOLISM AND DNA DAMAGE BY Cr(VI) 3.1. Cellular Metabolism. Cr(VI) displays no ability to damage DNA directly and requires reductive activation for its genotoxic activity. Structural similarity of chromate ion to sulfate (Figure 2B) allows its easy entry through the general sulfate channels. 16 As with abiotic reactions, cellular reduction of Cr(VI) yields thermodynamically stable Cr(III). 24,25 Efficient uptake of Cr(VI) followed by Cr(III) trapping via its binding to macromolecules leads to a massive accumulation of Cr relative to its extracellular concentrations, ranging from 10- to 20-fold after 3-h exposures to about 100-fold after 24-h exposures. 26,27 With the apparent exception of bacteria producing hyperoxidized Mn(III/IV), 28 biological systems lack the ability to reoxidize Cr(III) to Cr(VI). Extracellular reduction of Cr(VI) is a detoxification process that produces poorly permeable nontoxic Cr(III) (Figure 3). Studies of reduction activities in tissue homogenates and biological fluids showed that ascorbate (Asc) was the principal biological 1619 dx.doi.org/ /tx200251t Chem. Res. Toxicol. 2011, 24,
4 reducer of Cr(VI), accounting for 80 95% of its metabolism A combined activity of Asc and small thiols glutathione (GSH) and cysteine is responsible for >95% of Cr(VI) reduction in vivo.tissue concentrations of GSH and Asc are not usually dramatically different, and the predominant role of Asc stems from its very high rate of Cr(VI) reduction. At physiological 1 mm concentration, t 1/2 for Cr(VI) reduction by Asc was 1 min vs 60.7 min for GSH and 13.3 min for Cys. 32 Despite its slower rate of reduction, GSH is more important for Cr(VI) metabolism than Cys due to its higher cellular concentrations. Depending on the nature of the reducing agent, its concentration, and stoichiometry, Cr(VI) reduction reactions generate variable amounts of transient products such as Cr(V), Cr(IV), and sulfur- and carbon-based radicals As expected for these important biological antioxidants, GSH-, cysteine-, and Ascderived radicals formed in Cr(VI) reactions are unreactive toward DNA. 32,37,38 In the presence of H 2 O 2, intermediate Cr forms can catalyze Fenton-type reactions, generating highly reactive OH radicals. 39,40 Formation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and direct oxidizing abilities of Cr(V) 41,42 are the two main processes contributing to the induction of oxidative stress in Cr(VI)-treated cells. More detailed discussion of properties of intermediate Cr forms can be found in other reviews. 43,44 Although all biological reducers convert Cr(VI) to Cr(III), their mechanisms of reduction are not the same. Kinetic analyses predict that Cys acts almost exclusively as a one-electron reducer, 45 which is consistent with the presence of strong Cr(V) signal in Cys-driven reactions. 46 Reduction by GSH can proceed through either one- or two-electron reactions. 34,47,48 Asc is a highly efficient two-electron donor, yielding Cr(IV) as the first reduction intermediate and dehydroascorbic acid as the oxidized product. The presence of Cr(V) is only detectable under nonphysiological conditions of equimolar or higher ratio of Cr(VI) to Asc. 35,49,50 Insufficient amounts of Asc for the completion of Cr(VI) reduction in these reactions were responsible for a transient appearance of Cr(V), likely resulting from comproportionation of Cr(IV) and Cr(VI). Severe Asc deficiency of human and nonhepatic rodent cells in standard cultures 27,51 54 raises concerns that studies with cultured cells may not accurately recapitulate genotoxic properties of Cr(VI) in vivo. The Ascdepleted state of cultured cells results from the absence of this vitamin in the most common types of synthetic growth media, and typical additions of 10% serum to the media theoretically supplies only 10% of normal vitamin C levels. The actual levels of Asc in the growth media are lower due to its loss during the preparation and storage of serum. The half-life of Asc at 37 Cin cell culture media is 6 7h. 55 Recently fed cells can contain up to μm vitamin C, but in many cases, its levels are dramatically lower or undetectable. Even when cells start with μm Asc, they become completely depleted of Asc after h in culture. 54 Physiological concentrations of vitamin C in white blood cells and epithelial tissues are usually in the 1 2 mm range Cr-DNA Damage. Cellular metabolism of Cr(VI) can cause both oxidative and nonoxidative forms of DNA damage. 43,44,58 The most abundant and specific type of DNA damage is Cr-DNA binding (adducts), which has been detected in reduction reactions in vitro, in various cultured cells and in vivo. 16 Formation of Cr-DNA adducts in human cells was already clearly evident after brief exposures to 2 μm (current federal standard for Cr in water) and even lower concentrations of Cr(VI). 27,59 The rapid loss of Cr-DNA adducts from normal but not nucleotide excision repair (NER)-deficient human cells 59 firmly demonstrated that Cr binding to chromosomal DNA occurred in intact cells and did not arise artificially during DNA purification. Cr-DNA adducts are a heterogeneous group that includes binary [Cr(III)-DNA] and several ternary [ligand- Cr(III)-DNA] adducts where the ligand can be Asc, GSH, cysteine, or histidine. All four ternary adducts have been detected in Cr(VI)-treated cells 51,60 and are readily formed during in vitro Cr(VI) metabolism. DNA cross-linking of GSH, 33,38,61 cysteine, 21 and Asc 32,51 was observed in their corresponding reactions with Cr(VI), while DNA attachment of nonreducing amino acid histidine occurred efficiently during the reduction of Cr(VI) with Asc. 62 Cr(VI) also causes the formation of protein-cr(iii)- DNA cross-links, 63,64 which are rare lesions and whose main toxicological significance could lie not necessarily in the contribution to genotoxic responses but rather in the inhibition of gene-specific expression. 65 Binary Cr-DNA adducts are the most frequent DNA modifications in the in vitro reductions of Cr(VI). In Cr(VI) reactions with its two main biological reducers, Asc 51 and GSH, 38 binary adducts accounted for 75 95% of the total DNA-bound Cr. When normalized for recovery, Asc-Cr-DNA cross-links have been calculated to comprise 6% of Cr-DNA adducts in human A549 cells with restored Asc levels. 51 Cys-Cr- DNA and GSH-Cr-DNA accounted for 24 and 17% of all DNA adducts in hamster CHO cells, 60 although these values have not been adjusted for recovery. Protein-Cr-DNA cross-links constitute only about 0.1% of total adducts immediately after Cr(VI) exposures, 16,66 but their relative amounts are likely higher at later postexposure times due to delayed formation 67 and slower repair 66 relative to those of small Cr-DNA adducts. 59 All small ternary adducts are formed via the conjugation of preformed ligand-cr(iii) complexes with DNA, 51,62 whereas protein DNA cross-linking proceeds through the initial formation of binary Cr(III)-DNA adducts followed by a slow reaction of protein capture. 67 Binary Cr(III)-DNA adducts can result from direct DNA binding by Cr(III), but the role of other Cr forms in their formation cannot be excluded Mutagenicity of Cr-DNA Adducts. Complex metabolism of Cr(VI) and the formation of several types of DNA damage make it difficult to assess the importance of specific lesions in Cr(VI)-treated cells. These difficulties can be overcome using a shuttle-vector methodology, which allows for the examination of mutagenic and genotoxic properties of in vitro formed DNA damage during replication in intact human cells. Replication of adduct-carrying shuttle-vectors in human cells showed that the most abundant adduct, the binary Cr-DNA conjugate, was weakly mutagenic, whereas four ternary adducts containing DNA-cross-linked Asc, 32 GSH, cysteine, and histidine 68 were strongly mutagenic. Asc-Cr-DNA was the most potent mutagenic and replication-inhibiting adduct. In vitro reduction of Cr(VI) by purified Asc, 32 GSH, 38 or cysteine 37 also led to the production of mutagenic and replication-blocking DNA lesions, as revealed by analyses of replicated progeny of shuttle-vector plasmids propagated in human fibroblasts. Asc-driven metabolism of Cr(VI) in vitro resulted in the strongest mutagenic responses, 32 while reactions with GSH showed low yields of mutagenic damage and GSH-Cr-DNA adducts. 38 These findings were corroborated by a strong potentiation of Cr(VI) mutagenicity in cells with restored Asc levels. 27 Blocking of Cr-DNA binding during the reduction or dissociation of Cr-DNA adducts eliminated all mutagenic and replication-blocking responses in shuttle-vector plasmids incubated in Cr(VI) reactions containing 1620 dx.doi.org/ /tx200251t Chem. Res. Toxicol. 2011, 24,
5 Asc, 32,69 GSH, 38 or Cys, 37 demonstrating a key role of Cr-DNA adducts in the mutagenicity and genotoxicity of Cr(VI) when metabolized by its three main biological reducers. In agreement with these results, in vitro reduction reactions employing ironfree reagents failed to generate detectable amounts of singlestrand breaks and abasic sites in DNA. 21,32,38,45 Inhibition of in vitro replication on DNA templates damaged in Cr(VI)-Asc reactions was also dependent on Cr-DNA binding. 70 Involvement of Cr-DNA adducts in bacterial mutagenesis by Cr(VI) is indicated by higher yields of revertants in the Ames test using a NER-deficient Salmonella uvra strain. 71 Cr(VI) mutagenicity in transgenic laci mice was inhibited by GSH depletion, 72 which points to the importance of nonoxidative mechanisms and GSH-Cr-DNA adducts in mutagenic responses in vivo. Cr(VI)- induced fold changes in the number of HPRT mutants were reported to be lower in NER-deficient clones of CHO cells grown under the standard Asc-deficient conditions, 73 which contrasts the positive role of NER in the removal of adducts and survival of CHO 74 and human cells. 59 Thus, it is possible that NER operates differently on distinct Cr-DNA adducts. However, interpretation of the results with NER-null CHO clones was complicated by their greater background mutation frequencies, and these high denominator values offer an alternative explanation for an appearance of diminished mutagenic responses for Cr(VI) when data were expressed as a fold of change Chromosomal Breakage by Cr-DNA Adducts. Ternary but not binary Cr-DNA adducts were strong inhibitors of replication in plasmids transfected into human cells. 32,37 These results were unexpected given weak structural distortions in Cradducted DNA with 1 2 unwinding angle per Cr atom 75 and the inability of Cr-DNA adducts to block DNA replication in vitro. 61,70 The phosphate group is a primary site for Cr(III)-DNA binding, 62,68 although additional coordination to N7-dG is also possible as evidenced by the ability of Cr(III) to bind to dg, 62 G/C-targeted mutagenesis 32,37,68 and preferential incisions by a bacterial NER nuclease in Cr-adducted DNA. 76 Replication inhibition by ternary Cr-DNA adducts required the presence of mismatch repair (MMR) proteins, 77 which were found to recognize these modifications with an affinity that was comparable to that of their natural substrate, G/T mismatch. 78 Binary Cr-DNA adducts were poorly bound by MMR proteins, and their weak effects on vector replication were MMR-independent. 78 In a full agreement with plasmid replication experiments, MMR-null mouse and human cells were resistant to apoptosis and clonogenic toxicity by Cr(VI). 52,77,78 Studies with human cells of different histological origin showed that the high genotoxicity and cytotoxicity of Cr-DNA adducts resulted from their misprocessing by MMR into DNA double-strand breaks (DSB). 27,77,78 Importantly, DSB were detected by various techniques, including a direct methodology of pulse-field gel electrophoresis. 78 MMR was responsible for all DSB generated in Asc-restored normal human cells treated with both high and very low environmentally relevant (0.2 2 μm) concentrations of Cr(VI). 27 The Asc-Cr- DNA adduct was very efficiently recognized by MMR proteins in vitro, 78 and restoration of Asc levels in cells strongly increased cytotoxicity and DSB formation by Cr(VI) via MMR activity. 27,52,78 Asc-deficiency of human lung BEAS-2B cells during their chronic exposures to Cr(VI) could explain the inability of this cell transformation model 79 to recapitulate a hallmark of Cr(VI) carcinogenesis in the lung, microsatellite instability resulting from inactive MMR. 58 Formation of DSB by Cr-DNA adducts occurs in the G2 phase of the cell cycle, 27,77,78 although their initial recognition by MMR proteins takes place in the preceding S phase and is dependent on ongoing replication. 27,78 G2-specific DSB were observed for both soluble 27,77 and particulate chromates. 80 A progression of G2 cells with incompletely repaired DNA breaks through the cell cycle could be responsible for the observed S-phase arrest and DSB during chronic exposures to Cr(VI). 81,82 Cr-induced DSB were more persistent in human cells lacking WRN helicase, 82,83 a protein mutated in the Werner syndrome of premature aging. WRN was specifically required for the repair of MMR-generated DSB through its involvement in the activation of the initial steps in homologous recombination, leading to the formation of RAD51 foci. 83 Cr(VI) treatments of WRN-deficient cells also led to higher levels of telomere damage, 84 although it remains unknown whether Cr-DNA adducts and aberrant MMR contribute to the observed telomeric abnormalities. 4. CARCINOGENICITY OF Cr(VI) VIA DRINKING WATER 4.1. Epidemiological Studies. Occupational exposures to Cr(VI) via inhalation have consistently been found to increase the risk of cancers in the respiratory system. Both highly soluble and poorly soluble chromates were determined to be carcinogenic. 1,2,85 87 Information about the carcinogenicity of ingested Cr(VI) is much more limited. A study by Zhang and Li 88 reported increased mortality from stomach cancers among rural residents in the Liaoning Province of China where drinking water was heavily contaminated with Cr(VI) released by the ore smelting facility. One recent reanalysis of this study confirmed the originally reported association between Cr(VI) contamination and cancer mortality, 89 while another study using a smaller control population did not. 90 A meta-analysis of studies among chromate workers did not find a link between inhalation exposures to Cr(VI) and cancers outside the respiratory system. 91 Neither the ecological report from China nor the meta-study of occupational exposures is strong in addressing the issue of Cr(VI) carcinogenicity in the digestive system. Inherent to all ecological studies is their inability to control for confounders and other risk factors, which is important for the analysis of stomach tumors in China with its well-known high incidence of this cancer. For human inhalation exposures, Cr(VI) ingestion was only assumed, and even if it occurred, ingested doses of Cr(VI) would be dramatically lower than doses in the respiratory tissues. Therefore, susceptible individuals would be expected to develop lethal lung cancers before the appearance of the late age-arising tumors in the GI system. Tobacco smoking is a risk factor for cancers in many tissues, and very high percentages of smokers in the industrial cohorts would further diminish the ability to detect any moderate carcinogenic effects of airborne Cr(VI) in the alimentary tract Animal Studies. The National Toxicology Program (NTP) has recently completed 2-year rodent studies of Cr(VI) carcinogenicity via drinking water exposure. 92 Both male and female F344/N rats showed significantly increased incidence of tumors in the oral cavity at the highest concentration of Cr(VI) (180 mg/l). B6C3F1 mice of both sexes developed tumors in the small intestine (duodenum and jejunum), with statistically significant increases at the two highest doses of Cr(VI). Plots of mouse tumor rates versus daily ingested doses of Cr(VI) showed a linear shape of dose dependence for males and supralinearity for females (Figure 4A). The duodenum of all exposed mice had 1621 dx.doi.org/ /tx200251t Chem. Res. Toxicol. 2011, 24,
6 Figure 4. (A) Tumor rates in the small intestine of mice as a function of ingested daily dose of Cr(VI). Data are from the NTP bioassay. 92 (B) Expected shape of tumor dose-dependence for a carcinogenic mechanism based on cytotoxicity-induced regenerative proliferation. elevated incidences of diffuse epithelial hyperplasia, which was graded from minimal to mild. No overt toxicity (necrosis) was found in the small intestine of any Cr(VI)-exposed groups of mice or rats. Cr(VI) ingestion in the NTP study 92 has also led to some proinflammatory responses detected by the presence of the infiltrating histiocytes. Significant increases in histiocytic cell infiltrations were found in the upper portion of the small intestine (duodenum) and mesenteric lymph nodes in both sexes of mice and rats and in the liver of male and female rats and female mice. The pancreatic lymph nodes of female rats and male and female mice also had elevated amounts of histiocytic infiltrates. It has been recently hypothesized that inflammation and the resulting oxidative DNA damage could be important factors in the carcinogenic effects of ingested Cr(VI). 93,94 However, the presence of histiocytic infiltrations at several sites in rats was not associated with Cr(VI) carcinogenesis in this species. In mice, the overlap between the appearance of histiocytic cells and tumorigenesis was found only in the small intestine but not in the liver or lymph nodes. The biological significance of histiocytic infiltrations and their ability to cause oxidative DNA damage in the host tissue cells are currently unknown. A recent study utilizing 5 and 20 mg/l Cr(VI), concentrations that were below carcinogenic doses in the NTP rodent assay, did not find any increases in two forms of DNA damage in the duodenum of female SKH-1 mice after 9-month long exposure through drinking water. 95 These results were viewed as supportive of the threshold mechanism, questioning the human relevance of the observed carcinogenic effects in the mouse small intestine. However, the employed biomarkers were insensitive for the detection of DNA damage in the mouse duodenum. After a massive ex vivo exposure to 1.6 mm Cr(VI) (83.2 mg/l), only 2.5- and 3.8-fold increases were measured for protein DNA cross-links and 8-oxo-dG, respectfully. Such a low responsiveness was clearly insufficient to detect DNA damage for exposures with 4.2- and 16.6-times lower Cr(VI) levels in the 20 mg/l and 5 mg/l test groups, even in the implausible situation of no reduction and no dilution of Cr(VI) in the stomach. The use of 8-oxo-dG as a biomarker of DNA damage has one severe limitation: its short lifetime. Repair of 50% 8-oxo-dG occurs within 30 min and is complete by 2 h. 96 This short lifetime would make it very difficult to detect 8-oxo-dG even after recently ingested water with a sufficiently high dose producing strong responses ex vivo Is Cytotoxicity-Driven Proliferation Involved in Mouse Intestinal Carcinogenesis? The presence of diffuse epithelial hyperplasia in the duodenum of mice could raise the question of whether tumorigenesis in this tissue was a high-dose effect resulting from Cr(VI) cytotoxicity and subsequent compensatory proliferation. Although the NTP study has not found evidence of necrosis in the small intestine of Cr(VI)-exposed mice, 92 it is possible that the diffuse hyperplasia was a result of regenerative responses. Persistent hyperproliferation could lead to increased accumulation of spontaneous mutations and eventually cancer. This carcinogenic process should exhibit a steep sublinear, threshold-type dose dependence (Figure 4B), as it relies on the induction of cell death, and small nontoxic doses would be unable to initiate tumorigenesis. The presence of Cr(VI)-induced hyperplasia could also be viewed as a manifestation of cancer-protective responses by the small intestine. Elimination of genetically damaged cells by apoptosis or another form of cell death is a firmly established protective mechanism against cancer. Thus, there are two opposing interpretations for the carcinogenic significance of the diffuse epithelial hyperplasia: one is pro-tumorigenic; the other is antitumorigenic. The supralinear shapes of dose tumor responses in the NTP studies for female mice and combined male plus female results (Figure 4A) are more consistent with the activation of cancer-protective mechanisms. Tumor rates versus dose in male mice visually displayed a linear dose-dependence. Thus, experimental results do not support the engagement of cytotoxicitybased carcinogenic mechanisms with their expected dose response sublinearity Cocarcinogenicity of Cr(VI). The presence of Cr(VI) in drinking water has been found to increase the frequency of skin tumors in UV-irradiated hairless mice. 97,98 Ingestion of Cr(VI) alone produced no skin tumors, indicating that synergistic effects resulted from the enhancement of UV-initiated tumorigenesis. Cocarcinogenic activity of Cr(VI) did not involve oxidative mechanisms, as supplementation with antioxidants vitamin E or selenomethionine showed no effect on its potentiating ability. 98 These two antioxidants effectively suppressed the ability of As(III) to enhance UV skin carcinogenesis in hairless mice. 99 A possible target for synergism between Cr(VI) and UV could be the repair of DNA photolesions by NER. Since abundant Cr- DNA adducts are good NER substrates, 59 they would compete with UV-DNA damage for NER proteins and consequently increase the persistence of premutagenic pyrimidine dimers in UV-irradiated keratinocytes. The biological plausibility of Cr UV cocarcinogenesis through the competition for NER factors is supported by the comutagenicity of Cr(VI) and UV Critical Factors for Low-Dose Extrapolation. Asingle ecological study linking the presence of high Cr(VI) concentrations in drinking water to elevated mortality from stomach cancers did not include a dose-dependence analysis, 88 making it unsuitable for risk assessment. Therefore, calculations of cancer risks from Cr(VI) ingestion must rely on the extrapolation of results from high-dose animal studies to low-dose human exposures. This situation is very common, as potential environmental exposures to carcinogens are always much lower than doses in positive epidemiological or animal studies. The use of high carcinogen doses in the NTP bioassay results from the need to obtain statistically robust tumor responses. As an illustration of this problem, the standard size of 50 animals/group was insufficient to reach statistical significance for a 4-fold increase in the tumor rate for female mice receiving 1.2 mg/kg daily Cr(VI) dose dx.doi.org/ /tx200251t Chem. Res. Toxicol. 2011, 24,
7 A linear extrapolation of cancer risk to low environmental doses is a default regulatory approach for carcinogens with a mutagenic mode of action via DNA-reactive mechanisms. 101 A second critical consideration for linear extrapolations is whether environmental levels are sufficient to deliver a parental carcinogen or its reactive metabolite to a target organ. In the case of Cr(VI), the question of environmental relevance of the highdose animal results is centered on the completeness of Cr(VI) reductive inactivation in the human stomach prior to reaching the small intestine. The next two sections will review evidence for Cr(VI) mutagenicity/genotoxicity and incompleteness of gastric reduction at low doses. 5. MUTAGENIC MECHANISM IN Cr(VI) CARCINOGENESIS 5.1. Mutagenicity of Cr(VI). Cr(VI) compounds have been examined for mutagenicity in a large number of genotoxicity assays, from bacteria to laboratory rodents and human cells. Consistently positive results have been found in all standard mutagenicity tests, 102 including a reverse mutation assay in Salmonella, 1,71,103 HPRT mutagenesis in hamster V79 and CHO cells, 104 TK mutagenesis in human lymphoma cells, 105 and in vivo assays in transgenic animals. 72,106 Cr(VI) is also known to induce clastogenic micronuclei in primary human cells, 27 chromosomal aberrations in various cell lines, and micronuclei in vivo. 102 Mutagenic responses in standard cultures of V79 and CHO cells were relatively moderate. 104 However, the mutagenicity of Cr(VI) in CHO and V79 cells was dramatically increased when their Asc levels were restored to physiological levels. 27 Slowly dividing kidney and lung cells of laci transgenic mice 72 showed mutagenic responses to Cr(VI) that were comparable or even higher than those in rapidly dividing Ascdeficient rodent cells, 104 further pointing to the limitations of standard cell cultures to accurately recapitulate genotoxic effects. A high frequency of deletions in plasmids treated with Cr(VI) and Asc in vitro 32 and a poor recovery of deletion mutants at the HPRT gene in cultured cells and laci gene in transgenic mice suggest that current in vivo models and Asc-restored cells could still underestimate the true levels of Cr(VI) mutagenesis. In vivo and in vitro mutagenicity tests are also incapable of detecting chromosomal translocations, which are expected to arise from a massive formation of Cr(VI)-induced DSB in Asc-normalized cells. 27,78 Importantly, chromosomal translocations are a major mechanism for the activation of oncogenes in human cancers. 107 Predictive values for rodent carcinogenicity are approximately 80% for the Ames test (reverse mutagenesis in Salmonella) 108 and even higher for mutation assays in transgenic rodents. 109 The micronucleus assay has lower predictive potential but it is complementary to Ames and in vivo mutagenesis due to its sensitivity in detecting deletion- and translocation-promoting DSB. A recent analysis of a large database of carcinogenicity and genotoxicity studies concluded that a combination of the Ames test and the in vitro micronucleus assay was able to predict all genotoxic rodent carcinogens. 110 Thus, the positive findings with Cr(VI) in Ames, rodent mutation, and clastogenic micronucleus assays discussed above strongly argue for the importance of a mutagenic (genotoxic) mechanism in Cr(VI) carcinogenicity. A general property of mutagenic chemicals is their multispecies, trans-sex, and multisite carcinogenesis. 101 Cr(VI) clearly fits this description of a mutagenic carcinogen as it is known to induce tumors in humans (unquestionably in the respiratory system), laboratory rodents, both sexes of mice and rats, and at different locations (the muscular system and different sites in the alimentary canal and respiratory tract). 1,58, DNA-Reactive Mechanism in Cr(VI) Mutagenesis and Clastogenesis. Mutagenic responses can arise from direct chemical-dna damage (DNA-reactive mechanism) or high dose-induced nucleotide misbalances, reactive oxygen species, and other metabolic alterations (indirect mutagenicity). Linear low-dose extrapolations in cancer risk assessment are only appropriate for DNA-reactive carcinogens. 101 Positive results in the Ames test are considered as evidence of direct mutagenicity, and they alone would represent a very difficult barrier to overcome during a regulatory process for drug approval. 111 The Ames test was consistently positive for Cr(VI) 1,71,103 but negative for noncarcinogenic Cr(III) compounds. 112,113 As discussed in section 3.2 and summarized in earlier reviews, 16,114 Cr(VI) causes extensive formation of Cr-DNA adducts in both in vivo and in a variety of human and rodent cells in culture. Ternary Cr- DNA adducts were the principal mutagenic lesions generated during Cr(VI) metabolism by its three main reducers. 32,37,38,69 Generation of DSB and chromosomal breaks by Cr(VI) was also dependent on ternary Cr-DNA adducts that are mistakenly recognized by MMR proteins as DNA mismatches and are then processed into DNA breaks. 77,78 Importantly, Cr-DNA adducts and MMR-dependent DSB were detected at environmentally relevant doses both at and below the current federal standard for Cr in drinking water. 27 Collectively, these results demonstrate that DNA-reactive processes involving the formation of Cr-DNA adducts are major causes of Cr(VI) mutagenesis and clastogenesis. As argued earlier, 16 DNA binding by Cr(III) complexes predicts a linear dose-dependence between cellular Cr(VI) and mutagenic Cr-DNA adducts. Any oxidative or other forms of Cr- DNA damage arising from reactions of Cr(IV) should also display linear yields, as this intermediate is formed in all metabolic reactions of Cr(VI) (Figure 3) Genotoxic vs Epigenetic Mechanisms. Cancer is a genetic disease caused by a combination of mutations activating oncogenes and inactivating tumor suppressor genes. Recent whole genome sequencing studies have found that human tumors contain between several dozens and several hundreds of cancer-promoting mutations. 115,116 Cancer can also be described as an epigenetic disease since some tumor suppressor genes are silenced epigenetically, and cancer cells display globally different gene expression profiles that require corresponding chromatin remodeling at numerous promoters. Mutations in only two cancer genes, the p53 tumor suppressor and the KRAS oncogene, were sufficient to alter the expression of several hundred genes. 117 Mutations and other genomic rearrangements of histone-modifying proteins can convert them into oncogenes with ensuing abnormal chromatin remodeling TET1 has recently been found to participate in CpG demethylation, 121 and this gene forms a leukemia-inducing fusion product with the MLL oncogene. 122 The opposite process of epigenetic changes causing mutations can also take place. For example, biallelic silencing of the MMR gene MLH1 via promoter hypermethylation dramatically increases mutation rates and eventually leads to colon cancer. 123 Approximately 80% of lung cancers among chromate workers exhibited microsatellite instability (a hallmark of inactive MMR), which was associated with the loss of expression of key MMR proteins. 124,125 This MMR-null phenotype was suggested to result from the selection of resistant cells during chronic 1623 dx.doi.org/ /tx200251t Chem. Res. Toxicol. 2011, 24,
8 Figure 5. Genotoxic risks of ingested Cr(VI). Dose-independence of gastric detoxification is predicted to be applicable for a broad range of environmental Cr(VI) concentrations. A linear yield of Cr-DNA adducts and chromosomal breaks at environmental Cr(VI) doses has been demonstrated experimentally (section 5.2). Linearity of cancer risk at low levels of DNA damage is a default regulatory assumption for mutagenic carcinogens. 101 At low doses of Cr(VI), Cr-DNA adducts are a principal cause of chromosomal breaks in Asc-restored human cells and mutagenic DNA damage during Cr(VI) metabolism by its three main reducers. Sublinearity of direct and ROS-mediated DNA damage by Cr(V) stems from its detectable formation only under conditions of limited (depleted) Asc concentrations. exposures to cytotoxic doses of Cr(VI), as MMR-deficient cells are resistant to killing by Cr(VI). 77 Epigenetic repression of several genes (MLH1, p16, APC, and MGMT) in human chromate-associated cancers may reflect the presence of mutations in proteins regulating epigenetic stability or a direct ability of Cr(VI) to induce stable transcriptional silencing. Induction of epigenetic effects by Cr(VI) has been demonstrated but only in Asc-deficient cells. 128,129 Sun et al. 129 have found that Asc supplementation blocked the induction of epigenetic changes by chromate in human A549 cells. The importance of Asc in epigenetic regulation stems from its role as a cofactor for dioxygenases, a group of enzymes that include histone demethylases and the 5mC demethylating protein TET1. Depletion of cellular Asc during Cr(VI) metabolism is expected to impede the removal of repressive DNA (methylated CpG) and histone H3 (Lys-9 di- and trimethylation) marks with the ensuing negative consequences for gene expression. Although DNA damage and epigenetic responses are commonly viewed as separate events, DNA repair can induce largescale chromatin remodeling, particularly in the case of DSB processed by homologous recombination. 130 DSB have also been shown to generate a rapid transcriptional repression in the adjacent regions, 131 and it is possible that this repressive chromatin state can sometimes be retained even after the completion of DSB repair. Cr(VI) is a potent inducer of DSB even at low doses, 27,78 which could lead to the formation of transcriptionally repressed sites. 6. IS HUMAN GASTRIC DETOXIFICATION OF LOW Cr(VI) DOSES COMPLETE? The carcinogenic risk of ingested Cr(VI) at environmentally relevant doses has been questioned 94 on the basis of the reported high Cr(VI)-reducing capacity of gastric juice. 132,133 High detoxification potential of human stomach and other tissues is also a key element of the threshold model of Cr(VI) carcinogenesis. 134 This model would argue that despite a mutagenic mode of action, the complete detoxification of moderate Cr(VI) doses in the stomach makes it inappropriate to perform linear extrapolations of cancer risks from animal tumor responses detected at high doses that could have exceeded the capacity for gastric reduction. The ability of gastric juices to reduce/detoxify Cr(VI) is generally accepted in the field; however, studies with human volunteers and kinetic considerations of reduction and stomach emptying time do not support the completeness of the detoxification process. Three factors influence the extent of Cr(VI) reduction in the stomach: its reduction capacity, reduction rate, and stomach emptying time. On the basis of the reported high reduction capacity of the stomach (>80 mg/day), 133 the rate of reduction by gastric juice under fasting conditions could exhibit pseudo first-order kinetics in a broad range of low to moderate Cr(VI) concentrations. A fundamental property of first-order reactions is independence of the reaction half-time on concentration. This means that the extent of gastric reduction should be the same for both very small and very large amounts of Cr(VI). In agreement with first-order kinetics, the initial rates of reduction by human gastric juice were found to be independent of Cr(VI) concentrations. 94,132 Reduction of 0.1 mg/l Cr(VI) (current EPA standard for total chromium) by artificial gastric juice was the first-order reaction. 135 A similar bioavailability of Cr(VI) for small and large doses further supports the first-order reaction kinetics of gastric reduction. For example, human subjects excreted 2.1% of the ingested 20 ng of Cr(VI) in the 24-h urine 18 and 1.43% of the ingested 5 mg of Cr(VI). The latter value is my very conservative estimate calculated as 1/4th of the average 4-day excretion of 5.7% reported in the original study. 136 Thus, the bioavailability of 20 ng and 5 mg of Cr(VI) (250,000- fold range) appears to be comparable. The approximately 10-fold higher bioavailability of ingested Cr(VI) compared to that of Cr(VI) reduced with orange juice prior to ingestion 137 suggests that the bulk of absorbed Cr from Cr(VI) was likely a cellpermeable chromate. A classic study by Donaldson and Barreras 18 also performed a very important experiment on the bioavailability of 20 ng of Cr(VI) that was directly delivered into the duodenum of human subjects. In this case, 10.6% of Cr was excreted in the urine versus 2.1% for ingestion. Since the duodenal delivery used 100% Cr(VI), then the amount of Cr(VI) reaching the small intestine in their oral route experiment can be derived from the urinary excretion of 2.1% divided by = 19.8%. For the study with the ingestion of 5 mg of Cr(VI) by human volunteers, 136 the same type of calculations using the estimated 1.43% urinary excretion predict 13.5% nonreduced Cr(VI) reaching the duodenum. A second approach for the estimation of the percentage of Cr(VI) escaping stomach detoxification can be based on the considerations of the competing processes of stomach emptying and gastric reduction. Incubation with human gastric juice for 30 min at room temperature left 29.6% nonreduced Cr(VI) based on the diminished uptake by everted intestinal rings and 29.2% from a chromatographic profile (as determined by Image J) dx.doi.org/ /tx200251t Chem. Res. Toxicol. 2011, 24,
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